and register so we can get this thing working properly! The more climbers involved in the rankings, the more reflective it will be of the actual pecking order.. They're only accepting sends in 2005 at the moment.

I was just wondering how the scoring system works. On the 8a.nu rankings it is only your top ten routes/boulders that count.... this seems to solve the problem of (as currently seen on the RSA ranking) climber A who has done twenty 18's being rated higher than climber B whose ONLY done say four 30's????? some thing must be wrong...

Although the way i like to view any of these ranking systems is as a means of keeping a record of your personal achievements and comparisons with other climbers is only a secondary advantage.

oh and there are many realy strong climbers in the country that do not even bother looking at these rankings...... there is always some one bigger, better, stronger, faster....

I found the site on friday and thought it was a pretty good idiea. As I could find no gidelines for what routes to enter Exept that it had to be climed in this year. I just went all out and threw all of them in there (still a couple missing though). After checking the rankings, after a while I found myself lying relatively high. So I stopped.

No, there's nothing wrong with the 8a.nu system but I think loads of SA climbers are put off by the french grading system as they don't want to go through all the conversion issues, etc. Having an SA ranking with SA grades removes this problem completely!

There is still a lot of confusion on 8a.nu with the SA climbers and what the conversion actually is. The conversion table on this site (ClimbZA) has long been accepted as the correct conversion chart by most but some people are even using australian grades, etc. I also spoke to some german climbers (the guys who rode here on their bikes from Europe) who have climbed all over the world and they recon it's more like:

I suppose you coud list pitches but it starts getting a bit sstoopid. Maybe just put in a comment about the seriousness? I kinda feel that bigger adventures are best recorded in your memory and not reduced to some numbers in a stat chart.